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With proposals for hubs in Victoria and on the Gold Coast to resume the AFL season, a report has surfaced that senior players are threatening to walk out if their families can’t go into camp with them.
These players need to grow up and understand their responsibility to get jobs back for the football industry.
If they don’t play this year, the clubs feel the effect for decades to come. More staff will lose their jobs and programs like AFL Women’s will be in a vulnerable state.
The players need to understand that it is their job to play football – for very good money.
The whole idea of the hubs system is to isolate the players. If families come too, they would be required to find bigger facilities, which just isn’t feasible.
Another report suggested, at most, clubs could bring 32 players because it is a costly exercise. How are the AFL going to afford for all the family to come too?
The hubs are meant to stop any chance of the coronavirus getting into the system. The more people around theses hubs, the greater the risk of a player contracting it.
Being an AFL player is a privilege, not a right. Many people around the country would love to be in the position that they are in now.
If they threaten to stand down, good. Let them walk away and we can pick up a whole bunch of community players who actually want to play the game they love.
The AFL needs to put their foot down and stand true to their word. This is a crucial moment in our game and head office cannot afford to be bullied.
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